tank teardown--selling a lot of my stuff
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cloakerpoked
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Initially all my brittle stars, 2 of my 5 emerald crabs, my hermits, some snails, and the 3 fish in my display tank all survived. I haven't seen if they made the transition successfully or not. They were ok about 3. The only fish casualty was a bi-color psuedo that was in the 20 fuge where the kalk dripped into. I felt so terrible finding him...broke my heart.
All the other fish (6 of them) were in QT for an ich treatment, so they were completely unaffected by everything. Thanks for the offer, but my mom's tank is available for my zoas if they start looking bad. If you want to stop by, you're welcome to.
superstein61
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Nate
It was nice meeting your mom today - although wish the circumstances were better for you.
So far so godd on the clam, it seems to be doing fine (although never having kept one I am just taking an educated guess).
For whoever was interested in the Sebea - it looked good when i was there around 5pm , definitely worth buying if you have the room
good luck with the rebuild
It was nice meeting your mom today - although wish the circumstances were better for you.
So far so godd on the clam, it seems to be doing fine (although never having kept one I am just taking an educated guess).
For whoever was interested in the Sebea - it looked good when i was there around 5pm , definitely worth buying if you have the room
good luck with the rebuild
cloakerpoked
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He'll expand to about 18"...possibly bigger...here is a pic of him in all his glory 
(on the far left)
The pink in this picture is the one I'm selling also. I'll have a much better idea of how they're doing in the morning, but I'm pretty sure they'll be just fine. I had to break the rock the Sebea was attatched to (bummer cuz it's a 50lb show size piece...but I care too much for the animal to let him go) but he's been moved into the bowfront with the pink, so they're in a more controlled environment.
Superstein, keep me posted on how the clam does. As long as he's expanded and occasionally "swallows" then he should be doing well.
(on the far left)
The pink in this picture is the one I'm selling also. I'll have a much better idea of how they're doing in the morning, but I'm pretty sure they'll be just fine. I had to break the rock the Sebea was attatched to (bummer cuz it's a 50lb show size piece...but I care too much for the animal to let him go) but he's been moved into the bowfront with the pink, so they're in a more controlled environment.
Superstein, keep me posted on how the clam does. As long as he's expanded and occasionally "swallows" then he should be doing well.
cloakerpoked
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Ok, here's a more complete livestock list. All the zoas and LPS seem to be fine, as well as the clam. All the SPS seems to be dying off. I'm not holding out much hope that any of it will survive.
200+ zoanthid colony $60 (for pics of it in my display tank, just ask, since these ones don't really show what the colors of these colonies are.)
Really big Hairy Mushroom. Gets to be about 8" in diameter. $15
Misc. Zoanthid colony (I think there are some dragoneyes, watermelons, and a few other unidentified zoas in here...easily 60-70 polyps minimum) $35
Green Paly colony....$20
Red Grande Paly colony....$20
Really hard to see, but a 30 or so blue striped mushroom colony on a 5 or 10 pound piece of really nice LR....$30
Everything you see in this pic...$60 (3xblack cherry zoas, 2xdragon eye frags, reddish (either eagle eye or whammin watermelon I think) zoas, Radioactive Dragon Eyes, Green People Eater palys, Peanutbutter cups)
All of these but the last pack will be guaranteed to survive in your system past a reasonable period of time (2 weeks or so) unless it's obvious they suffered from this incident.
200+ zoanthid colony $60 (for pics of it in my display tank, just ask, since these ones don't really show what the colors of these colonies are.)
Really big Hairy Mushroom. Gets to be about 8" in diameter. $15
Misc. Zoanthid colony (I think there are some dragoneyes, watermelons, and a few other unidentified zoas in here...easily 60-70 polyps minimum) $35
Green Paly colony....$20
Red Grande Paly colony....$20
Really hard to see, but a 30 or so blue striped mushroom colony on a 5 or 10 pound piece of really nice LR....$30
Everything you see in this pic...$60 (3xblack cherry zoas, 2xdragon eye frags, reddish (either eagle eye or whammin watermelon I think) zoas, Radioactive Dragon Eyes, Green People Eater palys, Peanutbutter cups)
All of these but the last pack will be guaranteed to survive in your system past a reasonable period of time (2 weeks or so) unless it's obvious they suffered from this incident.
cloakerpoked
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cloakerpoked
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Thanks TJ. Since we have over 500 gallons of saltwater in the house, I'm not finding any shortage of storage space...and fortunately I had the frag rack built for the 72 and everything and it was just sitting, so all I had to do was mix up a bunch of water and transfer everything. I didn't acclimate since I figured if you're in a garage full of exhaust, you don't gradually build back up to the proper o2 levels. All the LPS looked good, which surprised me a little bit (brains, hammers, frogspawn, and candycane) I'll be monitoring tank conditions in the 72 pretty closely and doing water changes with r/o water as needed. Just trying to get rid of everything for now...reload, learn, and drop a few hundred bucks on some kind of pH controlling system to act as a failsafe in the future.
cloakerpoked
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Updated list of stuff available:
Large blue crocea--$60 (this weekend only)
Rose BTA--$50 (this weekend only)
If those two are here past Sunday, I'm keeping them.
Red Grande paly colony--$15
Green paly colony--$15
Misc. Zoa rock--$35 (pending Brian3 if he wants it)
200+ zoa colony--$60
Large blue stripe mushroom rock--$30
Zoa frag liquidation--$60
Yellow Sun polyps (15+ head colonies)--$10
Tank, pumps, plumbing, lights, etc--$700
Here's a video of the pumps running the returns and spraybar. (moved about 20 gallons in 30 seconds, which means that after the resistence in the lines, the pumps run the manifold at about 2400 gph.
I'll be selling the live rock after I use what I want to set up the 72. Will ask $4 a pound for the really nice rock...$2.50 for the base rock. If you take it all when I'm done with it (should be about 2 weeks or so by my estimate.) then I'll give you a good deal on all of it.
Large blue crocea--$60 (this weekend only)
Rose BTA--$50 (this weekend only)
If those two are here past Sunday, I'm keeping them.
Red Grande paly colony--$15
Green paly colony--$15
Misc. Zoa rock--$35 (pending Brian3 if he wants it)
200+ zoa colony--$60
Large blue stripe mushroom rock--$30
Zoa frag liquidation--$60
Yellow Sun polyps (15+ head colonies)--$10
Tank, pumps, plumbing, lights, etc--$700
Here's a video of the pumps running the returns and spraybar. (moved about 20 gallons in 30 seconds, which means that after the resistence in the lines, the pumps run the manifold at about 2400 gph.
I'll be selling the live rock after I use what I want to set up the 72. Will ask $4 a pound for the really nice rock...$2.50 for the base rock. If you take it all when I'm done with it (should be about 2 weeks or so by my estimate.) then I'll give you a good deal on all of it.
bigmatt1992
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i might want the sun polyps do you have pics of the colony.
Masterderrull
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PM Sent on the Zoas
cloakerpoked
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James, if my parameters get out of control, then I'll let you take him off my hands, but I'm getting a lot more confident as every day the stuff in my tank that survived is looking more and more like it used to. I have some hope that some of my orange cap is going to make it, and maybe my green slimer frag. I'm thinking that maybe because slimers have such a thick layer of mucus, it was able to protect itself more. Most of the tissue burned off, but it seems like almost all the polyps stayed in tact and are starting to peek out a little. I could be unrealistically optimistic too, we'll see.
Red Grande paly colony--$15
Green paly colony--$15
Misc. Zoa rock--$35 (pending Brian3 if he wants it, if not, Derek)
200+ zoa colony--$60 (pending Derek--Masterdull)
Large blue stripe mushroom rock--$30
Zoa frag liquidation--$60
Yellow Sun polyps (15+ head colonies)--$10
Red Grande paly colony--$15
Green paly colony--$15
Misc. Zoa rock--$35 (pending Brian3 if he wants it, if not, Derek)
200+ zoa colony--$60 (pending Derek--Masterdull)
Large blue stripe mushroom rock--$30
Zoa frag liquidation--$60
Yellow Sun polyps (15+ head colonies)--$10
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